Bolzano Quotes & Sayings

Three criteria to inspire as well as cultivate intercultural trust - sincerity, competence and reliability. — Sherwood Fleming

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about. — Pete McCarthy

Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague as I most always did, when I was attacked by an illness never before experienced, which manifested itself in chilliness and painful weariness of the whole body. In order to ease my condition I took up Euclid's Elements and read for the first time his doctrine of ratio, which I found treated there in a manner entirely new to me. The ingenuity displayed in Euclid's presentation filled me with such vivid pleasure, that forthwith I felt as well as ever. — Bernard Bolzano

Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite. — Bernard Bolzano

My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part. — Bernard Bolzano

In women he doesn't trust! He is an atheist. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Build something with enduring value. — Bill Hybels

The fulfillment we have in owning, in desiring, is temporary and illusory, because there is nothing at all we can have that we will not lose eventually. And so there is always fear. — Sharon Salzberg

Ethan, I don't go out with secretaries." Edward smiled at Sophia's petulant answer. "You want to go out with me, you call me. — Cristiane Serruya

Like most religious mathematicians from Pythagoras to Godel, Bolzano believes that math is the Language of God and that profound metaphysical truths can be derived and proved mathematically. — David Foster Wallace

Titus 2 exhorts women to love their children and to be keepers of the home. That doesn't mean that we can't have our own interests or earn extra money, but it does mean that we are to prioritize family because that's what love does. Love is not self-seeking. When you truly love someone you get up in the middle of the night to wash pillows, regardless of how much those sheets stink, or how tired you are. — Darlene Schacht

When I say that deciding to not kill myself was the worst part, I should clarify that I don't mean it in a retrospective sense. From where I am now, it seems like a solid enough decision. But at the time, it felt like I had been dragging myself through the most miserable, endless wasteland, and - far in the distance - I had seen the promising glimmer of a slightly less miserable wasteland. — Allie Brosh

Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative. — David Allen

If a shepherd errs, he must be isolated from other shepherds, but woe unto us if the sheep begin to distrust shepherds. — Umberto Eco

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work. — Jim Fowler